when the drone heat i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared pakistani girl who survived a u.s. drone attack travels to washington to tell congress how her home was destroyed and her grandmother was killed. also this week angered by n.s.a. spying and e.u. delegation fails to get explanations from u.s. officials while germany turns to edward snowden to get answers about the tapping of chancellor merkel's phone. who she knew. the. speed of course. is going to repeat it continuously we hear from n.s.a. leaks reporter glenn greenwald who says u.s. intelligence will continue to harvest data despite outrage from the public and its

allies. and behind the barbed wire reports from inside prison where over a dozen detainees are still on hunger strike in a bit of protest over the indefinite detention and mistreatment. of a look back at the top stories from the past seven days and the latest developments this is the weekly r.t. . the pakistani family who lost their grandmother in a cia drone strike traveled to washington this week to testify before congress party's going to jakarta was at the emotional briefing where family members asked u.s. lawmakers why their home was targeted in the first place. this was the first time actual victims of u.s. drone strikes were in congress and apart from the congressman who initiated this

briefing i saw only four other members of congress it's no secret the u.s. congress generally approves of girls right so it's very difficult to expect a sudden change of heart even though hard was what these drone victims were appealing on october twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone strike left this pakistani family devastated a nine year old girl and her thirteen year old brother nearly escaped death that day their sixty seven year old grandmother was killed that's the full pardon me i no longer love blue skies i prefer the gray skies the drones do not fly when this kinds agree and for a short period of time the mental time and fear eases between this the dreams return and so does the fear you know this family has never been abroad out of their home in north waziristan and the father of this family said he looked at the life around here. he wished his children to be able to walk the streets not afraid of being bombed at any moment. my mother was killed my children are in germany i'm so

glad that people are going to hear my story that's why we came to america i have no idea why religion why should. the family came to washington of course hoping to get answers for why they have to live in fear every day i have no idea why her grandmother was one to drown him i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared so i started to run and then i noticed my hand was bleeding so i tried to clean my hand but not kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running and. we also learned that the u.s. government did not grant to the lawyer of this family prominent pakistani warrior who has sued the cia in the past on behalf of the victims of drone strikes in pakistan four hundred fifty thousand population of. you know concentration. being picked. off what time to the show on how long for someone.

s.u.v. this is how the being targeted and at the same time they're not really in a position to leave the area the purpose of this briefing was to put a human face to drone strikes there's a for a chance that in congress the tragedy of this family will fall on deaf ears but there is hope that the public will take notice in washington i'm going to check out . the u.s. claims few civilians have been victims of these three hundred seventy six drone attacks which have been launched over the past decade local reports however suggest at least nine hundred innocent people including up to two hundred children have been killed with documentary filmmaker robert greenwald took the story of the riemann family as inspiration for his latest movie and says the public doesn't understand the real consequences of drones. people want to believe in santa claus and they also want to believe that there's a simple solution to these incredibly complicated problems when we started reading

that the drones were killing only high value targets represented in imminent threat it doesn't make sense just not possible so i think there was a kind of hopefulness yes finally we found a magic pill which is part of it some of it is the fact that american soldiers warrant there so people said it doesn't matter as to what is the you know the families making two kinds of americans people who have a mother will have a father who look at them and can't justify the killing and then you have this extraordinary militarily industrial electoral complex bipartisan that agrees with the way to solve problems is by invading occupying and we have to change all of our. chance for peace this week a u.s. strike. just as the government was preparing to start negotiations the details

coming up later in the program. a group of diplomats who traveled to washington this week seeking explanations about the n.s.a. spying activities left without the m.e.p. delegation complained the u.s. provided. eavesdropping. and whether the white house had any knowledge of it and he described america's response as feeble and warned it could aggravate relations specifically has been angered by the tapping of chancellor angela merkel germany is considering asking the man behind all these leaks edward snowden to help explain what happened. met the whistleblower to ask him to give evidence to parliament. basically. i think it's important to work together with mr snowden rather than putting him in prison we'd like more clarity on these allegations and we want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again snowden worked for many years

for the cia and n.s.a. so i'm sure he could tell us everything we need to know about the leaked documents because as we've seen the n.s.a. has been very scarce with providing information i also think that the organization including n.s.a. chief keith alexander aren't always being true for what they want to claim they'll never break german laws on their surveillance operations but tapping the chancellor's phone is not legal that's why i have trouble trusting u.s. intelligence officials. the n.s.a. revelations have triggered something of a blame game in washington secretary of state john kerry pointed the finger at the intelligence services claiming the n.s.a. ran certain operations without letting the white house know. it is there. so kerry referring there to spying by automatic pilot the head of the n.s.a.

said the contrary it is policy makers not the intelligence services who select targets and journalist glenn greenwald who's been releasing snowden's leaks says despite this scandal the n.s.a. will not scale back its activities. the fire. in our city. is going to repeat it continuously for the next several weeks or months almost every country around the world the very clear objective is to not just go out grow but to keep it for as long as they can so the big every time. if your citizens are here you are also already begun doing in terms of you and i say whistleblower edward snowden has published a manifesto calling on the world to resist the spread of surveillance that appeared in the german magazine der spiegel which is known for revealing leaked classified documents snowden sent it from moscow to the editors for an encrypted channel in

the manifesto he insists those who tell the truth are not committing a crime accuses some governments of an unprecedented persecution campaign in response to his leaks and says everyone has a moral obligation to uphold laws and values which limits surveillance and protect human rights for me and my five agent and he spoke to a little earlier she supports the manifesto and says whistleblowing should be decriminalised who is actually breaking the law or here because all the grounds that each by agency say they are legally allowed to file notices and appear to be very legally dubious at best a thing in the last decade is the technological scale of the spying its industrial scale sky and the new technology has allowed that to happen and the laws which is supposed to be and democratically oversee how we are spied on are just not keeping up the twentieth century nor so now in the twenty first century tech. after eight months over a dozen guantanamo bay detainees remain on hunger strike in protest against their

indefinite detention and the use of torture inmates are being force fed in a brutal procedure that the u.s. military continues to defend what is in the stars a chicken a sent this report from inside the prison. every morning at eight am the u.s. national anthem erupts across the beast that holds america's most scandalous prison no one likes to be spit on no one wants to have their own autumn torture hunger strikes and suicides have marred this place since two thousand and two and they're human beings after all they're there's no reason to expect that they enjoy being here you know we pretend otherwise prisoners held indefinitely in the name of the never ending war on terror where the innocent or guilty is not our job right here you know we have the court system to time and that in just over a decade a total of seven hundred seventy nine prisoners the majority released without charges today one hundred sixty four remain over half of them cleared for release

but still kept locked up. on the other side of the barbed wire. life is a blast. there is water and it's nice there's nothing really bad about here just like any common american town now is awfully scared to come here but i mean it's absolutely beautiful place when you get around all the other stuff it's getting around the other stuff is not hard a lot of what goes on here is kept under a thick veil of denial and secrecy camp delta house as a hospital and library and this is also the place where patients are force fed and even though the hunger strike is largely and officially said to be over we know that at least fifteen people are continually being force fed here today a tube is passed down through a person's nostril and pushed all the way down to their stomach before it's passed on the nose we lubricate it and we give the patient a choice do they want to have the key which is the agent who will

numb the area or if they want olive oil to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of the will. in fact some of our patients are so used to this they will. described which nostril they want this while major world medical bodies are in agreement. and should not be practiced the force feeding them i've got my clients of experience to guantanamo they've certainly described the storage or the restraint chair that they're strapped into they actually call the torture chair an arabic force feeding takes up to forty five minutes and is performed twice a day the patients that had the civilian world have said it feel strange i've never heard insisting on. i have not heard that good move fishes are beyond nonchalant about the highly criticized practice you might feel differently from the way i might feel uncomfortable has been the most of it i have heard but they don't even

believe in what this thing anymore because they know it sounds stupid i volunteer that the procedure be demonstrated on me requested the prisoners who've not met one another and speak different languages keep saying the same thing that we were tortured used. tied. to the chair legs to the ground. strap across forced in a tube into our noses never in thirteen years have detainees been allowed to speak directly to a journalist while remaining at get most only leaking statements through lawyers they would love nothing more than to sit down with journalists and just tell them you know about their daily lives but communicating seems to only occur here if someone was a point where maybe they had been verbalizing a lot of hopelessness we were immediately intervening and trying to assist that person to make sure that there wasn't any thoughts of maybe wanting to harm themselves or in their lives with charts like these often used to pinpoint

patients despair you asked them how do you feel right now and they'll be able to point to it we have not had a patient in this area. thank you meanwhile six suicides and dozens of suicide attempts have taken place at the detention facility we haven't seen any autopsies the u.s. government hasn't released any formal reports or findings we're now outside two active camps at guantanamo camp five old single cells where the so-called compliant detainees are held camp number six is one filled with communal cells when officials deem the. better there will be rewarded by being allowed to live in groups while detainees are kept away from what we witness are clean empty prison cells with cozy pajamas colgate toothpaste and maximum security shampoos paraded in front of journalists as proof everything is so much better here than any silly horror stories we all have heard and.

a toxic. moment the syrian government dismantles its chemical weapons production facilities but the whole process hangs in the balance rebel groups refused to take part in the process the story. after the break. with. technology innovation. developments around russia we. covered. wealthy british style. guys go. to the. market to. find out what's really happening to the global economy for

a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. is a report on. more news today. again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations the day. this week syria met the first ambitious deadline on its path to chemical disarmament it has successfully dismantled the equipment and the facilities used to produce toxic weapons but the tough task of eliminating the existing stockpiles lays ahead made harder by the war that continues to rage now reports from damascus

dangerous and that's how the nobel prize committee described the work of chemical weapons inspectors inside syria not to mention a tight deadline october twenty five damascus provides a detailed plan of its chemical weapons stockpiles done october twenty seven foreign inspectors visited or declared sites missed. syria finishes destroying all equipment used in the production and mixing of poison gas and nerve agents done we eliminate i mean whatever we can but you know this is a very complicated process complications filled by so called security concerns and that's the reason why one deadline already has been missed one of the biggest problems the team faces is how to access sites in rebel controlled areas so far the rebels have been unwilling to cooperate or inspectors have managed to visit twenty

one of twenty three sites and although they haven't furby blame the rebels damascus insists it's doing its share until. those. sites being visited are under government control and we hope those who are controlling. the groups to leave them to implement what they are expected to implement it's the most difficult mission if undertaken by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons destroying a country's chemical weapons stockpiles in the midst of a civil war. syria actually stopped producing chemical weapons in one thousand nine hundred eight as a possessed alternatives that can be a strategic substitution and are not in conflict with international law but none of this answers the reason why foreign inspectors are in damascus in the first place a chemical attack on august twenty first in which hundreds of people were killed up to rockets with sarin gas fired at damascus as suburbs those responsible hostility large the next deadline in the destruction of syria's chemical weapons program is

the middle of next year by then damascus must have destroyed removed its entire stockpile and ambitious timeline in very difficult circumstances policy r.t. damascus. the head of syria's opposition coalition says he won't take part in peace talks in geneva until a timetable is agreed for bashar al assad to step down opposition groups have also been accused of hampering the disarmament efforts while middle east analysts sharmeen know why he believes the reason the syrian government is so happy to help get rid of its chemical weapons is because it removes an excuse for outside intervention. but there is that evidence that rebels have some their hands on some chemical weapons we've certainly seen in iraq and turkey rebels being apprehended with chemical agents components of chemical weapons in their possession and. really important point and this is something i heard from a syrian government official earlier this year the syrian government has for some

time now viewed chemical weapons as a liability and a burden precisely for these reasons because potentially rebels could get their hands on small amounts of these chemical agents and use them across the border in israel or turkey to then justify a military attack against the syrian government so they have been quite pleased that the international community has come together to in fact to read them of these weapons so that excuse no longer exists. we've also got more stories what have you on our website including facing up to reality the operator of japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant is forced to turn to the u.s. help in cleaning up the dangerous facility details and calm where we're closely following the situation in and around the plant. plus party boats the secret behind google's floating structures in san francisco bay is revealed for story high barges will travel up and down america's coastline promoting the new

wearable google glasses but details ahead online and see for yourself l.t. . the peace process in pakistan has been the rolled off to a u.s. drone strike killed the country's taliban leader this week it happened just a day before a government delegation was set to start negotiations with the group the country's now on high security alert over fears militants could retaliate pakistan's interior minister accused washington of sabotaging efforts to end the violence and a local expert told us he believes it's the pakistani people who pay the price. the prime minister of pakistan was in washington d.c. only a week back and he had spoken to president obama taken him into confidence regarding the dialogue process and it also made a request for the drone attacks to stop because we've. made it a precondition but the drone attacks must come to an end before they come to the dialogue be able but instead of the drone attacks being stop big continued i mean

buddy who is going to suffer or it is going to be the people of pakistan not the us the united states does not have the right to be judge jury and executor all rolled into one without any authority the french government proposed taxes hit a nerve with the public as thousands hit the streets calling for it to be scrapped immediately. the french brittany has been rocked by protests which turned violent police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse angry crowds hurling rocks and bottles in response eco tax imposes levies on trucks weighing more than three and a half tons. and in the concerns that it could drive companies out of business. at least nine people are being killed by a string of insurgent attacks targeting security forces across iraq in the central city a three police officers died and scores were injured after three suicide bombers

blew themselves up one after another the surge in violence over recent months has claimed thousands of victims with authorities struggling to contain the bloodshed despite wide ranging operations and tighten security. at least six people including one child have died after a ferry capsized off the coast of thailand near the popular resort of tire twenty people remain unaccounted for there are reports that up to twelve hundred two hundred were on board even though the maximum capacity is one hundred fifty max and it has been blamed on an engine problem which calls passengers to rush to the top of the vessel forcing it to flip on its side. this week italy's four hundred hit the streets to demand better social housing conditions for thousands of migrants in the country the street is the only home they have and even the lucky few who are provided with accommodation often regret

moving to a city in search of a better life that is your ticket off. some call it a city within a city others a refugee ghetto it's like a marriage to an african refugees from four african countries over twelve hundred people crammed inside a former university building in rome now known as palace meeting. here. weren't allowed to film inside the rooms but a doctor treating the refugees agreed to describe the conditions they were. there thirty five tabs and thirty five showers and eighty percent of that need to be repaired the beds are all seen in very bad condition actually a lot of people sleep in the car thousands of refugees have been flocking to italy mainly across the mediterranean in search of a better life but the country's only economic problems including the worst recession since the second world war provide very little opportunity at the same

time. obliges all refugees to stay in the country where they receive asylum those who manage to avoid registration go further north as illegals but those who don't want local shelters are running out of space for all the newcomers without a job or even a place to sleep where do you go for the majority it's the train stations the meeting point for possible work or some cash during the day and makeshift shelter at night which is on a bit of let me space sometimes immigrants from different countries fight each other like the old man and those from bangladesh for example pennies i don't want this area they make it out there there are a lot of them here and various nationalities at first they came from some countries now also from eastern once the whole region is full of immigrants. polish or it is in gadget very strong activity but live well also you will be. solve this problem the e.u.

has pledged. to give an additional thirty million euros for italy to build more shelters for the refugees but its own weight release will help create new jobs or ease the floor the immigrants all together. r.t. . coming up shortly here in r.t. you can find out what happens when a filmmaker takes on a giant food conglomerate but before i go here are some of the week's images from the olympic flames record breaking journey across russia with less than one hundred days before the winter games in sochi the olympic flame is continuing its ambitious relay it's already been to the north pole in just a few days will blast off for the international space station torch is passing through the towns and cities of the world's biggest country currently touring russia's north. they forget that r.t. dot com has a full selection of videos and photos from the olympic flames marathon. remember

way back when we first talked about the first thousand loadable guns that could be printed out on a three d. printer at home while technology moves pretty quickly because british police have already busted illegal armory pretty out firearm parts and special three d. printers this technology may make gun control literally impossible in the same way that banning and burning books has become futile and the past they used to be able to just burn books or forbid them from being printed but in the age of the internet all you need is a scanner and an internet connection and the information that's found in a book cannot be destroyed because it is out there on the magical ether of the air

at so basically the near future any person with even half a brain and some patients can start making guns in their basement which means that gun control laws will basically become pointless because they'll never be able to catch all the people doing it no it will be able to take the guns not even obama or the hardest of hardcore liberals this technology could be the best thing to happen to the second amendment ever but fascist my opinion. it's not to say that your story isn't given the fan voice and in fact coverage from your perspective but it's something that they have got better relationships with the press than you do and that being stupid is appealing for them not to be using those to their advantage. i know that i'm up against the huge machine employing scare tactics media control p.r. spin and dirty tricks these lobbying and public relation firms provide

a variety of services among the service in some of these firms provide is to actually plant opinion pieces or what we call op eds in american newspapers. they have people on staff who do nothing but sit around all day and write up an opinion piece then they'll go out to a think tank or to a university and recruit someone there with a big name to put their name on the piece and then they will plant the piece in an american newspaper when we got the opposition and saw this david ginsburg declaration i was personally surprised he's in the l.a. copyright society an organization i was president of one time and i remember when we admitted him into the society and and that's a group of people who are primarily defense oriented you know representing filmmakers defense.